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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Hi. I'm new to DNS and bind. My ISP doesn't support local loopback, and I have a domain I just bought (andrewclarke.ca). I'm hosting this at home, behind a debian-based firewall/router.

The problem is that if I go to andrewclarke.ca or my static IP from within my home network I get a connection refused. My IP returns pings but that's about it. I figured I'd set up bind to resolve *.andrewclarke.ca back to the internal IPs for whatever service I want.

I've managed to get bind to where if I "ping www.andrewclarke.ca" with bind running I get "unknown host". So at least I know I'm doing something partially right. What I want though is for me to get 192.168.16.5 or whatever my internal web server IP is, rather than my public IP which is what I get from my public nameservers.

I'll look later more into what else I probably did wrong, and what some of the other settings mean, but I didn't realize that I was supposed to refer to the DNS servers of record in here. I thought I needed to refer to my own internal DNS server, which I guess I wasn't supposed to do.